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Samantha Delescavage used it to buy video system, criminal complaint says.
WILKES-BARRE – An investigation by two police departments resulted in the arrest of an Exeter woman on Thursday in connection with stealing a nurse’s wallet and using a credit card to purchase a video game system, police said.
Samantha Valentine Delescavage, 26, of Exeter Avenue, was arrested at her place of employment, Fox Ridge Country Club, in Exeter on an arrest warrant for access device fraud, forgery, identity theft and theft. She was arraigned by District Judge Martin Kane in Wilkes-Barre, still wearing her name tag and waitress uniform, and jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $20,000 bail.
According to the criminal complaint filed by Wilkes-Barre Township Police Detective Charles Dyanick III:
A woman, a nurse at a physician’s office on North River Street, Wilkes-Barre, filed a report with Hanover Township police that her wallet containing several credit cards was missing from her purse on May 11. She claimed one of her credit cards was used at the Walmart Supercenter in Wilkes-Barre Township to purchase an item for $317.92.
The nurse said her wallet may have been stolen while she was at work during the day. She had her purse inside a room where two patients were left unaccompanied to fill out medical forms, the criminal complaint says.
Dyanick learned from Walmart security that the nurse’s credit card was used to purchase the video game system at 4:31 p.m. on May 11.
Police said in the criminal complaint that Delescavage was at the physician’s office at 2:30 p.m. and left about 45 minutes later.
Hanover Township police obtained Delescavage’s identification picture that was compared to the surveillance video.
Police alleged the nurse identified Delescavage from the video to being one of the two patients left unaccompanied in a room at the physician’s office where she had her purse, the complaint says.